Best chain oil for electric chainsaw?

Dick2 · Nov 23, 2013

What is the best oil to use to oil the chain on an electric chainsaw? Heavy or light? New or used oil?

D beatty · Nov 23, 2013

I use the same chain oil in my electric as I use in my gas saws (Stihl bar oil ).

Ted in NE-OH · Nov 23, 2013

Chain saw oil is sticker so does not run off so easily. Used motor oil is not sticky and not so good for this purpose.

Geo-TH,In · Nov 23, 2013

Rural King sells a winter oil, think it's 10w. There is also a summer blend. If it's really cold, I may add a little K1 diesel fuel or ATF so be thin enough to get to the chain.

Leroy · Nov 23, 2013

Cannot think of the brand of mine but it called for 20 weight motor oil but the saw is probably around 15 years old.

Jack345 · Nov 23, 2013

Don't think they make chain only for electric chainsaws if the chain is the same as gas saws I would use the same bar oil as the gas saws.

Bret4207 · Nov 24, 2013

Bar and chain oil is the thing to use, gas or electric. They make summer weight (30 last I checked) and winter (10). Some places only carry summer weight and that accounts for 90% of the oiling issues that come into my shop this time of year!

jeffcat · Nov 24, 2013

In the really cold cutting situation I have used ATF. It pumps nice and easy and lubes well. It is easy to clean up your saw with a little puff of air from an air hose. Manual pump saws just use 30wt in summer and 10wt for cold weather with ATF for realy cold cutting. Many new saws use gear type drive pumps on the oilers so you can use that sticky bar oil stuff. It is very hard to pump by hand and or if your saw has a diaphram type pump it just sits in the tank. Jeffcat

Bret4207 · Nov 25, 2013

Holy smokes Jeff! What do you consider "new type"? Auto oilers have been around since the mid 70's! I haven't seen a brand new saw with an auxiliary manual oiler in a long time. The 2100 is last I recall and that was in the early 80's. Maybe it's an option?If your bar oil is too stiff to pump by hand you need to get winter weight.

RodinNS · Nov 25, 2013

There's three different grades of bar oil, light (Winter) medium (spring/fall) and heavy for summer use. The medium is probably appropriate for the present but it won't be long before you need the light stuff. I don't believe it matters whether the saw is electric or gasoline powered... the bar oil would be the same.

Rod

greygoat · Nov 25, 2013

The Owners manual for my ECHO, Gas, Chain saw
calls for #30 motor oil, for chain lube oil.
That's all I've been using for 20 years, with
no problems, winter or summer.

onefarmer · Nov 26, 2013

Ever since I blew up the oil pump on my Stihl 031 three times on motor oil. I switched to bar/chain oil and had no more issues in any saw.

Bret4207 · Nov 26, 2013

(quoted from post at 23:08:32 11/25/13) Ever since I blew up the oil pump on my Stihl 031 three times on motor oil. I switched to bar/chain oil and had no more issues in any saw.

How do you "blow up" a chainsaw oil pump? It's a gear driven volume pump, there's very little pressure involved. Do you mean you stripped the gear or something? What usually happens is they get full of saw dust from running a dull chain and jam which strips the gears.

onefarmer · Nov 26, 2013

Pumps seized up all with in a month. Pump would seize stripping the gear. After the third one the saw shop told me to try using just bar oil. Never had another problem. Never used motor oil again, only bar oil.

36 Coupe · Nov 26, 2013

Used motor oil contains some nasty stuff you dont want on your skin or fire wood.Read the cautions on oil bottles.A chain saw dosent use much bar oil so I use bar oil.

D beatty · Nov 26, 2013

My 22 year old husky says to use 30 weight but I switched it over to bar oil years ago and have had no problems. I think the bar oil does a better job of lubing. I also lub the nose sproket of bar every time I fuel and periodically clean out chain groove .

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